User talk:Jailensmith

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:39, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Dedé Mirabal

Hallo and thank you for expanding the information on the 4th sister.

Something your teachers should have pointed out is that if you use one source several times you should give the reference a name and then cite it as a named reference on the later occasions, so it only appears once in the list of references: it's much tidier that way. I've tweaked your "garcia" reference, including removing the extra information which was in the fields used for 2nd and 3rd authors (tempting, but inaccurate), and re-used it. Also, the date formats needed attention. It's acceptable to use 2020-04-29 as a date for "access-date" but not for the main references, because all-numerica dates are so ambiguous. 9-11 can mean either November 9th or September 11th. And in any case when adding to an existing article you should follow the display format of the dates. (Initially I changed your numbers dates to US-format "April 29, 2020", before realising that the rest of the article used "29 April 2020").

Something which intrigued me is the question of her birth date. You added 29th February 1925, as in the Huffington Post piece, but if you pause to think about it... that didn't exist. I found one reliable source which was clear about 1st March (the date used in the list of dates for all 4 sisters, though I couldn't find it in any of the sources cited).

I also found that she needed some incoming redirects, so I have created links from Bélgica Adela Mirabal Reyes, Bélgica Adela Mirabal and Dedé Mirabal. Redirects are really important as they help the reader to find the article they are looking for and also help prevent a future careless editor from creating an accidental duplicated article.

I hope you are enjoying editing Wikipedia and will continue to do so after the end of your assignment. Happy Editing. PamD 11:40, 29 April 2020 (UTC) @Shalor (Wiki Ed): just for info. PamD 11:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)